África/Zambia/21 de Agosto de 2016/Fuente: Zambia Daily Mail
RESUMEN: Toda sociedad requiere suficientes recursos humanos y materiales para mejorar su organización social, preservar la cultura, mejorar el desarrollo económico y la reforma de las estructuras políticas. La educación es a menudo visto como un requisito previo para el desarrollo de mano de obra de calidad y la creación de riqueza, un camino seguro hacia el éxito en la vida y el servicio a la humanidad. Sin embargo, para proporcionar una educación de calidad, que es un requisito previo para el desarrollo nacional, necesitamos maestros, y en los números correctos.
Esto se debe a que los profesores desempeñan un papel importante en el equipamiento de los ciudadanos por su papel en la sociedad que son necesarias para alcanzar los objetivos nacionales establecidos. Sin embargo, con la población en rápido crecimiento, Zambia ha tenido problemas en el suministro de los profesores adecuados para el número de alumnos en las escuelas. Por ejemplo, en 2012 el informe de la UNESCO Zambia clasificó de octavo lugar entre los países con alta proporción de alumnos con una proporción del 48 a 1. Por lo tanto, es gratificante que el gobierno del Frente Patriótico ha seguido mostrando compromiso hacia la mejora de la calidad de la educación mediante la contratación de más maestros. Esta decisión no es sólo la creación del empleo muy necesario para los graduados, sino también mejorar la calidad de la educación que se imparte a los alumnos. Portavoz del Ministerio de Educación General, Hillary Chipango dijo que una gran parte de los profesores contratados trabajará en las zonas rurales porque hay una estrategia deliberada para abrir más escuelas para permitir a los habitantes rurales de obtener una educación. Con el desarrollo de infraestructura masiva que ha tenido lugar en todo el país, las zonas rurales están desarrollados con una vivienda digna, electricidad, agua potable y buenas carreteras, entre otras instalaciones.
EVERY society requires adequate human and material resources to improve its social organisation, preserve the culture, enhance economic development and reform the political structures.
Education is often seen as a prerequisite for quality manpower development and creation of wealth, a sure path to success in life and service to humanity.
But to provide quality education, which is a prerequisite to national development, we need teachers, and in the right numbers.
This is because teachers play an important role in equipping citizens for their roles in society which are needed to achieve the set national objectives.
However, with the fast growing population, Zambia has had challenges in providing adequate teachers for the number of pupils in schools.
For instance, in 2012 the UNESCO report rated Zambia eighth among countries with high pupil-teacher ratio globally with a ratio of 48 to 1.
It is therefore gratifying that the Patriotic Front government has continued to show commitment towards enhancing the quality of education by recruiting more teachers.
Last year, Government recruited about 5,000 teachers.
This year, Government has recruited 5,765 teachers who have since been deployed to different parts of the country.
This decision is not only creating the much-needed employment for graduates but also enhancing the quality of education provided to pupils.
We all know that the fewer the pupils a teacher handles the more attention each pupil gets.
But in instances where a teacher is overwhelmed by the number of pupils the quality of the service offered is compromised.
This further compromises the quality of graduates and subsequently their contribution to national development.
The average pass rates in the past could actually partly be attributed to the high pupil-teacher ratio.
For instance, the Grade 12 pass rate for 2014 and 2015 was 55 percent and 57 percent, respectively.
It is therefore hoped that with more teachers recruited, pupils will get quality education service and this will translate to high pass rates for grades 7, 9 and 12.
Now that Government has done its part, we expect the recruited teachers to put in their best and ensure that they produce quality pupils who will add value to the country.
Ministry of General Education spokesperson Hillary Chipango said a big chunk of the recruited teachers will be based in rural areas because there is a deliberate strategy to open up more schools there to enable more rural dwellers to get an education.
Mr Chipango further said the reason Government has constructed more schools across the country is to enhance quality delivery of educational services and closer to the people.
Given this scenario it is our expectation that those teachers who have been posted to rural areas will accept the offer realising that that’s where their service is really needed.
With massive infrastructure development which has taken place across the country, rural areas are now developed with decent housing, electricity, clean water and good roads, among other facilities.
So teachers have no excuse for shunning rural areas. We therefore urge the relevant authorities to pay teachers deployed to rural areas settling allowances on time to avoid any inconveniences.
It is also our hope that through this deployment the Ministry of General Education has taken care of the need to apportion more science, mathematics and ICT teachers especially to rural areas, where there is a deficiency.
Lastly we implore Government to continue on the same path of recruiting more teachers until we attain a desirable pupil-teacher ratio to ensure delivery of quality education service to all parts of the country.
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